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ALGIERS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has officially notified the Interior Ministry of his candidacy for the April 17 election, one formality he had to complete to run for a fourth term, the state news agency APS said on Saturday. (Reporting by Hamid Ould Ahmed; writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

SANAA (Reuters) - An armed group kidnapped a foreign doctor in northern Yemen, the Interior Ministry and a local official said on Monday, the latest in a spate of abductions against Westerners in the country. The local official said the armed group kidnapped the doctor from the hospital he worked at in Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, late on Sunday. The official and a diplomatic source said the doctor was from Uzbekistan, but the Interior Ministry gave his nationality as Russian and added that he was an anesthetist.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two suicide bombings in Egypt's South Sinai killed a soldier and wounded at least eight people and two other bombs killed two people in Cairo on Friday, less than four weeks before a presidential election is due to be held, official sources said. In other violence in the port city of Alexandria, two people were shot dead when supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi clashed with residents, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Militant attacks and other political violence have spiraled since the army overthrew Mursi, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, last July after mass protests against his rule.

TRIPOLI, July 3 (Reuters) - Libya's government is drawing up plans to disband militias who have plagued the capital since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, the justice minister said as an armed group occupied the interior ministry for a second day. Salah al-Marghani did not give details of how the authorities would tackle the bands of fighters who have challenged the authority of the government and its security forces for nearly two years....

ABU DHABI, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Two suspects have been arrested in Saudi Arabia after exchanging information about imminent suicide attacks in the region through social media, the official Saudi news agency reported on Thursday. The two men, one from Chad and the other a Yemeni, are being interrogated after their arrest in relation to conversations they had on social media forums with militants abroad, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said citing an official at the interior ministry.

CAIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Six members of the Egyptian security forces were killed on Wednesday while breaking up Cairo protest camps set up by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi, state TV reported, quoting the Interior Ministry. The state-run Nile TV said a further 66 members of the security forces had been wounded. (Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by John Stonestreet)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has released a list of 18 people who will be banned from the United States under a new law penalizing Russia for alleged human rights abuses. The U.S. law, named after Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison in 2009, has become an irritant in relations between the former Cold War superpowers. Obama signed it in December. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer who worked for the Hermitage Capital Management investment fund, found himself facing accusations of a $230 million tax fraud.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A homemade bomb exploded in a Shi'ite Muslim village in Bahrain on Tuesday, wounding two policemen, the interior ministry said, nine days after another blast in the Gulf Arab kingdom killed three police officers. Bahrain has been grappling with unrest by majority Shi'ites over the past three years demanding political reform and an end to perceived discrimination in the Sunni Muslim-ruled country. Bahrain denies any discrimination against Shi'ites. Bomb attacks have increased since last year, raising concern about further instability in the Western-allied kingdom where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based as a bulwark against Shi'ite giant Iran across the Gulf.

MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain expelled a prominent Shi'ite religious figure on Wednesday, accusing him of acting as a representative of influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani without permission. A statement by the interior ministry said it had received information from top Iraqi government officials that Sheikh Hussein al-Najati was Sistani's representative and had carried out activities such as fund-raising in that capacity. Bahrain, which is ruled by the Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa dynasty, accuses Shi'ite power Iran of fomenting unrest in the country since a 2011 uprising led by the Shi'ite Muslim community demanding reforms and more share in running the kingdom.